Harrison Gray Otis

Harrison Gray Otis (8 October 1765-28 October 1848) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts' 8th district from 4 March 1797 to 3 March 1801 (succeeding Fisher Ames and preceding William Eustis), a US Senator from 4 March 1817 to 30 May 1822 (succeeding Joseph Bradley Varnum and preceding James Lloyd), and Mayor of Boston from 5 January 1829 to 2 January 1832 (succeeding Josiah Quincy III and preceding Charles Wells). He was a Federalist Party member.

Biography
Harrison Gray Otis was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1765, the nephew of Patriot leader James Otis Jr.. He became a lawyer in 1786, and he was elected to the state legislature in 1794. He served as US Attorney for Massachusetts in 1796 and as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1797 to 1801, as President of the State Senate from 1805 to 1806 and from 1808 to 1811, and, from 1814 to 1815, he served as a delegate to the secessionist Hartford Convention. The convention led to the demise of the Federalist Party, but Otis, who lived in a strongly Federalist state, went on to serve as a US Senator from 1817 to 1822 and as Mayor of Boston from 1829 to 1832. He died in 1848.